Documents

On this page: GLRI Action Plans | Reports to Congress | GLRI Guidance and Implementation | GLRI Creation and Establishment | GLRI Authorizations | GLRI Partnership and Engagement

GLRI Action Plans

Federal agencies do the work of the GLRI guided by five-year Action Plans, developed with input from states, tribes, local governments, universities, business and others. Amended Clean Water Act Section 118(c)(7)(G) requires the Action Plan to be reviewed and revised not less often than once every five years.

• GLRI Action Plan III (FY2020-2024)
• GLRI Action Plan II (FY2015-2019)
• GLRI Action Plan I (FY2010-2014)

Reports to Congress and the President

Federal agencies report GLRI progress in Reports to Congress and the President. Amended Clean Water Act Section 118(c)(7)(H) requires the EPA Administrator to report on GLRI progress to Committees of the House and Senate.

• FY2017 GLRI Report to Congress
• FY2016 GLRI Report to Congress
• FY2015 GLRI Report to Congress
• FY2010-FY2014 GLRI Report to Congress
• FY2012 GLRI Report to Congress
• FY2011 GLRI Report to Congress
• FY2010 GLRI Report to Congress

GLRI Guidance and Implementation

• Adaptive Management Framework - January 2016
  
  - Science-Based Adaptive Management Process for GLRI Action Plan II - January 2016
• GLRI Environmental Accomplishments in the Great Lakes Implementation Manual - March 2016
  
  - Data Management and Quality Assurance
• GLRI Action Plan 2 Measures Reporting plan - September 2017

Creation and Establishment of GLRI

• Establishment of Great Lakes Interagency Task Force and Promotion of a Regional Collaboration of National Significance for the Great Lakes May 18, 2004. Executive Order 13340 (PDF)
• Great Lakes Regional Collaboration Strategy (PDF)
  

GLRI Authorizations (first and current)

• Public Law 111-88, October 30, 2009 / Interior Department and Further Continuing Appropriations, Fiscal Year 2010
• 33 U.S. Code Section 1268 – Great Lakes
  • (GPO.gov link)

GLRI Partnership and Engagement

• Lakewide Action and Management Plans and Biodiversity Conservation Strategies